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Orchard, R. P., was born in Bath, Somersetshire, England, June 9, 1811, son of Abram K. and Mary (Cuthbertson)
Orchard, he a native of Bath, and she of Neath, near Swansey, England. The father of Abram K. was a bookbinder
by trade, and also a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He died in 1857, aged sixty seven years, and his
wife in 1813. Subject was reared in South Wales at Mantyglo. He began work in the iron works and at nineteen years
of age took charge of a coal yard. He remained in that work until 1838, when he came to Rochester and engaged in
the grocery business twenty eight years, and in 1872 came to Walworth, where he has lived retired. Mr. Orchard
was married three times, first to Elizabeth Whitehead in 1844, by whom he had one child, Rowel R, who resides in
Washington as a livery manager. His second wife was Charlotte Baker, and his third wife, whom he married December
19, 1884, was Diana Turner, widow of Silas Turner, of Walworth. Mr. Turner died in 1881. Rowel R. married Hannah
Everdeen, by whom he had three children: Charles, Libbie and Willie. Mrs. Orchard, wife of subject, first married
Harvey Howes, by whom she had five children now living: Roswell F., Harriet A., E. Clarissa, Charles H., and William
H., all living in Michigan, except Charles H., who is a Baptist minister of Clyde. Mr. Orchard has made his own
property, and was the first man to deliver goods from a store in Rochester.
From:
Landmarks of Wayne County, New York
Edited by: Hon. George W. Cowles
Assisted by: H. P. Smith and others
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1895
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